It would seem that 130 million is absolutely insufficient to address the root causes of the problems.

this notion of these youngsters who are coming to the United States, they are coming to the United States because their parents want them to be free from violence

The United States-India relationship... is entering a new phase, for a variety of reasons, where there is a huge up-side opportunity on economic cooperation and trade.

President Solis recognizes that a market of 5 million versus a market of 43 million, which is all the Central American countries together, is a vast difference on investment and scalability.

The United States is the largest provider of humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in the world.

Absent a free and representative government and economic system that allows for broad participation, the risk for terrorism and the growth of extremism remains high.

Could you offer kind of a current status of human rights or democratization issues in Kazakhstan?

I have been really stunned by the reducing budgets for CARSI, the Central America Regional Security Initiative.

The Senate has acted recently to pass legislation--we passed a resolution last week, we have passed another resolution this week--dealing with increasing complaints about oppression of religious minorities in different regions of the world.

I would pledge that any community outreach, any geography issues that the Air Force has, whether it's in science, technology, or others, we will engage the local community and we will be open-minded and transparent in what we do.

There are legitimate grievances. The Houthis participated in the national dialogue, so that was a positive step.

the events in Ukraine, for a country that has been part of the Soviet Union in the past--I know that they--that--you know, that has to be a huge factor right now in Turkmen politics

The legislative activity in Uganda is very, very troubling.

the violence in these communities, a lot of it is connected to the drug trade, is it not?

I think that by engaging, we have shown some progress and we can continue to show progress by using our leverage.

That kind of legislation can promote an attitude, frankly, that will be counter to your mission.

We would be lucky to have all of you, with your expertise, serving in the capacities for which you have been nominated.

I want to associate myself with comments that the Chairman made about the importance of investments.

It is worse now than then. They are less safe now than then.

We work constantly with India, as well as our other diplomatic partners to that end.

I would hope that the United States could utilize that U.N. Security Council resolution with the nations that were willing to support it.

The ability of the United States to lead at the U.N. is directly tethered to our meeting our bills and our responsibilities.

Turkmenistan considers Russia to be a strategic partner, but does not intend to join the Eurasian Union.

The opportunity, as a member of the committee, to visit our personnel--Foreign Service personnel abroad... is always--I always walk away from those, very impressed with the work that is done.

I continue to believe that with respect to Ukraine and other nations in Europe, one of the best things we can do for them is to help them obtain other sources of energy.